The Grenada gazette., 1887-12-24
FAR EASTERN RACES.
Dreamy Nations That VIII Disappear De.
fore the People Of the Wcst.


Dreamy Nations That VIII Disappear De
fore the People Of the Wcst.
st Though want of imagination hi
% been the cause of this Far Eastern i'm
a personality, tho eynirnoment has helpe
y in the process. These people hav
}, travelled very little. A race differ
= from an individual in its travels il
8 one respect, namely, that while tn
= former lives off the country, In tn
) case Of tho latter it is the country tha
lives off him. The result is that
while the individual reaps cosnlopoli'
tanism as his recompense. race i.
|. : constantly driven in upon ITSELF In it
struggle for existence, and become!
more personal as the outcome Of til,
strife. Tho changed conditions under
which it finds itself necessitato
mental ingenuity to adapt them,
and influence it unconscious.
ly. To see how potent these
influences prove VIC have but 10 look
at that branch Of the Aryan family
that for SO long now has stayed at
home. Destitute of stimulus from
without, the Indo-Aryan mind turned
on itself, and consumed in metaphysics
the imagination which has made their
cousins the leaders in the world prog.
ress to-day. The inevitable numb
nees OF monotony crept over them.
The deadly sameness of their sur.
roundings began to tell. Tho topper
OF the East, like some paralyzing poi
son. stole into their souls. and they
fell asleep, and did but dream in the
land they had formerly wrestcd from
its possessors. Their brthnght passed
into the West
That travel without Imagination will
not produce personality tho Altaic
peoples abundantly witness. The Huns,
the Turks and the Tartars have re-
manned through all their wanderincs
nearly as impersonal as when they set
out. Both causes combined to keep
the Japanese, perhaps, the most I'M
personal of ALL
Oac thing. then. this glance ut Far
Eastern civilization has shown. The
soul in its progress through this world.
at least, tends inevitably to individ.
uaization. Grand as is the great con-
ception of Buddhism. majestic as is
the idea of the stately rest it would
lead us to, the road here below is not
one the life of the world can follow.
If earthly existence be an evil, then
Buddhism will help us ignore it;
but if, by an impulse we can
not explain. VIC instinctively crave
activity of mind, then the great gospel
Of Gautama appeals TO us in vain. As
for Far Orientals, they but show too
clearly the reverse of the medallion.
That linptrsonality is not man earth-
ly goal they unwittingly bear witness
attractive people that they
are, their civilization is like their tree
flowers, beautiful blossoms destined
never to bear fruit.
for Whatever we may conceive their
imrersonality to forotcll in the far
future Of another life, of one thing we
may be certain: its immediate effect
can not but be annihilating. If they
in their old course, their
earthly career is closed. Just
rs surely as morning passes into
afternoon. so surely are these races
'f the Far East, if unchanged, des.
'ined to disappear before tho ad.
'ancing peoples of the West. Vanish
hey will off the face of the earth, and
cave the planet the eventual posses.
sion of the dwcllcrs in the days de.
'line. Unless their newly-imported
IDEAS really take root, it is from this
Whole world that Japanese and Kor.
'ans. as well as Chinese, will newt.
'bly be excluded. Even now Nirvana
las come upon them. Already it has
Wrapped Far Elstern Asia as with a
hroud woven of the peaceful DEATH
ike beauty Of the Land of the Days
'eginning and the land Of its Morning
Jalm. -Perctval Lo,0eV, in atlantic. I